The first thing to do after the occupation of heights 518.6 was, of course, all sorts of defensive work. It's just that the defense work of each class is different......

The infantry was built as a fortification...... The fortifications built by our army are naturally facing the direction of Vietnam, and the fortifications in the direction of China have already been built for us, and the terrain towards China and several other directions is very steep, so it only needs to be strengthened slightly.

This is the benefit of the highlands in the Banwang area...... Only one side is relatively gentle, and the other three sides are steep and difficult to navigate, which is like a natural fortress.

The defense of the mortar battery was the same as that of the infantry, which was digging...... The difference was that the position was more demanding, and it was also divided into three parts, each part of a platoon, which was arranged on the left flank, right flank and hilltop positions on the high ground. Needless to say, the left and right flanks were to form crossfire, and the hilltop position was to strike at the enemy more haode...... At the same time, it is also used as a mobile artillery, and once there is a need to strengthen artillery assistance in wartime, then the mortar fire located at the top of the hill can be transferred first.

The sapper's job is to transport ammunition and help tanks and cars with concealment.

The biggest advantage of the tank is its mobility, for example, we just used the tank to intersperse, and then in a very short time, we bulldozed Tongmian and provided fire cover for the attack on the 518.6 heights...... But it will be difficult to play a role in the defense of the heights. The main thing is that artillery has been highly developed in this era...... This long-range artillery fire is so numerous and dense that if the tank is used for defense, it will not be able to withstand the coverage of long-range artillery fire.

Not to mention cars......

So the best way to do this is to find a safe haven for tanks and cars...... Since we are now interspersed with the rear of the Vietnamese army, there are Vietnamese troops stationed in front and behind. All are likely to be shelled by the Vietnamese army. So the requirements for this safe haven are also high...... Fortunately, the terrain in this part of Vietnam is more complicated. Yang Jie looked at the terrain and quickly found a warehouse for the tank and car troops...... The warehouse is located in a large col at the foot of Heights 518.6, surrounded on three sides, with an anticline of Heights 518.6 to the south, and an exit to the west that can accommodate two tanks and drain in and out to Tongmian. Of course, the current tung cotton is already in ruins.

In other words, this col is almost a natural haven where shells can't hit in all directions, and it's no wonder that the Yue Devil built a warehouse here.

It's just that when Yang Jie opened the door of this warehouse with a bulldozer, he couldn't help but be stunned......

"Battalion commander!" Yang Jie said to me on the walkie-talkie, "Should you come to this warehouse to have a look?" ”

As soon as I heard Yang Jie's words, I knew that there was an unexpected gain, so I left Zhao Jingping and a few staff officers...... At this time, they were busy contacting Commander Huang and reporting the situation. He took two guards and got into the jeep and drove towards the col.

Within a few minutes, the jeep stopped in front of the warehouse door, Yang Jie and others hurriedly came out to welcome me in, and with Yang Jie's order, the headlights of the two bulldozers were turned on at the same time...... Suddenly, a neatly arranged Soviet-style armored vehicles and tanks appeared in front of me......

The tank is the T62 that we are familiar with, and the armored car is a wheeled armored car, as for what model I didn't study, I didn't study it later, and later I learned that it was the Soviet-style BTR-60, and the Soviet Union had already replaced the 76 with the BTR-70 when it was 60, so it was used to reinforce Vietnam with this relatively backward 60.

However, although this armored vehicle is already a backward generation for the Soviet Union, it is still quite advanced for our country and Vietnam

I couldn't help but open my mouth wide for a long time and didn't react...... Turning his head and asking Huang Jianfu, who was full of joy on the side, "Have you checked it?" Are they all haode? ”

"I only came to check two in a hurry!" Huang Jianfu nodded: "It's haode." The others should be haode too! ”

"And such a good thing......" I stepped forward in disbelief, and didn't believe it was all true until I touched the cold and hard armor of the tank.

"What's going on!" I said, "Didn't the mechanized infantry battalions of the Yue devils go to reinforce Luping?" How could there be so much equipment left here! ”

"Battalion commander!" Huang Jianfu replied: "I just counted it. Here are more than thirty armored vehicles, six tanks, just enough to equip a battalion...... So I wondered if this equipment was left by the Yue Devil to Banwang's garrison! ”

"Oh!" When Huang Jianfu said this, I kind of understood...... The Vietnamese army did this is indeed his reason, war, the taboo is that all the equipment is just right, sometimes there must be some redundancy to have a way to rush, which is why the troops often have ammunition reserves.

For example, now, if there are not more armored vehicles stored in the Banwang area...... Once a mechanized infantry battalion is transferred to carry out the mission, then the training in the Banwang area cannot be carried out normally.

But if there is a battalion redundancy, this problem will not arise, and in this way, the battle in the Banwang area will undoubtedly be much more flexible, for example, once the Chinese army attacks too tightly, you can also use redundant armored vehicles to equip a force to raid the flank of the Chinese army, or if it is surrounded, you can also use armored troops to break through and retreat.

But I'm afraid that the Vietnamese army didn't think it was ...... They didn't have time to use this equipment before it fell into our hands!

"Alas!" Then Huang Jianfu sighed and said: "It's a pity that these armored vehicles are all wheeled......"

But I smiled noncommittally, the people of our country in this era are more inclined to armored vehicles like tanks, and think that the off-road and protective properties of armored vehicles are better than wheeled ones...... This is true, tracked armored vehicles are incomparable to wheeled armored vehicles when crossing trenches or enemy fortifications.

But......

In terms of equipment, it should be "specialized in the arts", and there are tanks to do things like crossing trenches, and the main role of armored vehicles is to carry infantry to provide cover for infantry, so more attention should be paid to mobility...... This is incomparable with tracked armored vehicles, which can even run eighty yards on the road...... In addition, the tank fire control system of this era has not yet been highly developed, and it is inaccurate to hit fast-moving targets, so the speed characteristics of wheeled armored vehicles can play a role on the battlefield.

THIS TRUTH IS ACTUALLY VERY SIMPLE, THE ARMOR OF ARMORED VEHICLES IS GENERALLY THINNER, AND A LITTLE THICKER AND THINNER WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE STRAFING OF TANKS, BAZOOKAS AND EVEN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS (DESHKA ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS CAN PENETRATE 100MM ARMOR AT A DISTANCE OF 20M), SO WEISHENME DOES NOT INCREASE MOBILITY?

Therefore, on the battlefield, sometimes it is not that the thicker the armor, the safer, but that it is necessary to use the most suitable equipment according to the comprehensive performance of the enemy's weapons on the battlefield.

This is also the reason why the Type 92 infantry combat vehicle equipped with modern equipment in our country adopts the wheeled type...... South Korea, on the other hand, claims to be the most advanced K21 tracked infantry tank in Asia...... Because of the one-sided pursuit of firepower and armor, the result has developed into a tank and like an infantry chariot, the most deplorable thing is that there must be a few minutes to inflate before entering the water, and after the air is inflated, two toad-like air bags will be puffed up on both sides...... The airbag is only enough to allow it to suspend in water when it is in motion, that is, if the engine fails in the water and stops, it will sink.

As a result, two of them sank during training, and it is said that one soldier was drowned. On the other hand, who dares to guarantee that the enemy will not strafe with machine guns at airbags on the battlefield, and even if they cannot strafe with machine guns at close range, then who dares to guarantee that they will not be cut by shrapnel......

Because of our limited preparation time, we put aside the matter of this armored vehicle for the time being, and just explained that Yang Jie and others must guard the valley mouth and once again shifted our attention to the 518.6 heights.

At this time, the mortar company had already tested its skills with the Vietnamese troops on the 481 and 544 heights under the command of Zhao Jingping, just as I had expected...... The distance between the 518.6 heights and the first two heights is exactly about 3 kilometers, so that the light mortars of the Vietnamese army are all useless, plus they do not have many heavy mortars and all the mortars of our army are heavy...... So our mortar company fought with confidence, and when it detected a firepower point, it seemed that it was completely playing with the Yue devils and they had nothing to do!

Of course, there are also occasional more devils who can't hold their breath and return fire with heavy mortars...... This was exactly what I wanted, and the fire of more than a dozen mortars of our army was concentrated in that exposed position at once...... Within a few blows, the Vietnamese army was beaten to the point of losing their temper.

But these are still secondary, the most important thing is the coordination and contact between the artillery observer and the long-range artillery......

By this time, the focus of the battle had shifted to the Banwang area...... We have all occupied the 518.6 heights, so of course the Vietnamese army knows that the strategic focus of our army is Banwang, and since the Vietnamese army already knows it, then there is naturally no need for our army's feint attack in the direction of Luping to insist on...... Of course, the necessary harassment was still necessary, in order to prevent the Vietnamese army from returning to Banwang with all its might.

As a result, our army quickly transferred another artillery regiment in the direction of Aidian...... That is, there are already three artillery regiments pointing to Banwang.

This has made a lot of artillery observers in our battalion busy, and all kinds of contacts and various test firing ...... They took advantage of the fact that the Vietnamese reinforcements had not yet come up, so they contacted the long-range artillery, and divided the dead angles in front and back of the 518.6 heights and the areas that could be covered by the artillery fire into blocks and calculated the parameters.

Don't think about it...... This is to prepare for the upcoming Vietnamese army! (To be continued......)